Dick Sutphen's​Master of Life Newsletter

This year Roberta and I have teamed up with the Salvation Army to raise funds for their annual Red Kettle Drive.We are both passionate about giving to this worthy organization.

We are asking for your help to raise as many funds as possible by purchasing at least 1 MP3 download this month.

For the month of December we will donate$1.00 for every MP3 download and$2.00 for every CD or DVD.

Your gift to the Salvation Army is Tax Deductible.

You search hard for happiness, but how can you find it by searching for it? Happiness comes from within, the natural result of what you do in life. The more you spread joy to others, the more it will come back to you. If what you’ve been doing has not generated the joy and happiness you desire, it is time to change your approach. Stop searching. Stop desiring. Just give. Practice kindness. Share yourself. Give without expectations and it will be returned a hundred times over. Everything in life comes back to you.

Compassion is a feeling of deep sympathy or sorrow for another’s suffering, accompanied by a desire to alleviate the pain or remove its cause.

Ideally, when you experience compassion for another human being, you can help by creating conditions that will allow that person to alleviate his or her own pain.

The Salvation Army served 27,167,320 people last year. Roberta and I are asking that you help them reach those who are in need this holiday season.

My Grandfather and Grandmother met through the Salvation Army and married. He was a Captian and she played the tambourine . My Mother later donated money in exchange for one of the bells.
But unless the Salvation Army has drastically changed some of their practices since the mid 1990's, I am not interested in giving to them. They auctioned off low end furniture in bulk saying they would not have "something that ugly on their 'showroom'". Unlike Goodwill, if they help the truly needy without requiring them to listen to a sermon and stay sober, I'm not aware of it. Also, I was told the the St Petersburg store "sends their "best" things to a Tampa store.
On a side note,Dick Sutphen's teachings in the 1980's &1990's made an extreme difference in my life and gave me a lifeline to get off the merry-go-round. Thank you so much for that.

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Linda Allison

12/1/2017 06:35:10 pm

My aunt played the accordian for the Salvation Army band. The furniture in the meeting place she worked was nothing fancy. I don't think she even made minimum wage. Yes, she offered assistance to drunks and prostitutes. Goodwill, on the other hand, makes lots of money for the CEOs. Small percentage of profits go to workers. They took the store out of my town, but left the dropoff box. I take my donations to the Salvation Army.

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Linda Allison

12/1/2017 06:29:47 pm

Thank you for choosing the Salvation Army. My aunt was a captain, and in her honor I donate to the SA every year. It is one of the few organizations that doesn't pay a huge salary to the people at the top of the "charity".

The Salvation Army is one of the two organizations I know of that will accept people into their programs when the person is ready to get clean & live a drug free life. ACCEPT THEM WITHOUT MONEY!! If you have dealt with this then you know what a huge issue it is. God bless the Salvation Army forever. They are the best.
I agree 100% with Linda's comments.

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Dick began writing his "Master of Life" newsletters in his Valley of the Sun catalogs that he published three or four times a year beginning in the 1980s.